I’m tired of hearing about my past. It used to be ‘More people! More noise! Distract me!’ But now it’s ‘Shhh!’ Taking time for [me] is important. I learned that the hard way, unfortunately. But I did. And I want to share that with other people.
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Quotes tagged ‘Distractions’
You can’t be distracted by anything. You’re gonna have a lot of distractions.
Don't go down that emotion road, just go down on her. It's easier, she'll be distracted.
— Melissa Rosenberg, Kevin Maynard, Angel Batista, David Zayas, imdb.com
Olivia: Burying yourself in work isn't always the best thing when you lose someone. Fitz: Running away isn't the best thing either.
— Shonda Rhimes, Mark Fish, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com
Here's one thing that makes it hard to finish a novel: Going down the Twitter rabbit hole.
Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can’t see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.
Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the…
Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other deeper type of pain that is always there if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy tryin…
I've become keenly aware that we literally do live in a world of shout-y walls. And if that isn't distracting enough, my phone contains the voices of billions on Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook. But Montag is right when he said that, 'Nobody feels listened to,' because too often, we don't listen to…
He'll be talking to someone and suddenly get so distracted by their eyes, or their smile, or their lips, that he'll forget what he was talking about or where he is at the time. He's so distracted by the sexual energy pulsating through his body, he can't form a complete sentence.
They don’t answer your questions directly. Instead of confronting their mistakes, they divert your attention to something else, often with an emotional story that you’d feel bad interrupting.
New positions and sensations will distract him and make him last longer.
It can be hard to take time out for ourselves for anything, even a little self-love. Try to cut out the usual distractions, like turning off your phone ringer.
You’re only wasting your life if you’re too distracted to experience it.
He ignores distractions. When a guy really likes you, he’ll turn his phone off or avoid checking it. He’ll turn his focus on to you and only you. If he’s really shy though, he might use his phone as a crutch to break up the awkwardness. However, he’ll quickly put it away if the conversation gets goi…
Love and happiness are nothing but distractions.
— John C. Kelley, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
What’s that on the wall? Okay, this doesn’t happen all the time but I’m sure at some time during his life, when he’s on his back and you’re on top, he would have noticed something he’d never noticed before on the wall.
Is it weird that I'm super hungry right now?" (This is when you'll start thinking about what leftovers are in your fridge and get totally distracted)
You'll be free of any distractions that would otherwise slow down your productivity. Ever had to go to work the next morning after a long and torturous fight?
It can be hard to take time out for ourselves for anything, even a little self-love. Try to cut out the usual distractions, like turning off your phone ringer.